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| author | bors <bors@rust-lang.org> | 2015-05-21 15:24:16 +0000 |
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| committer | bors <bors@rust-lang.org> | 2015-05-21 15:24:16 +0000 |
| commit | 59ba55ddbd4cfc1fb2bc627ed1e859000b7304db (patch) | |
| tree | cc2c7995110c0973ff25fae2d2117e38c3507418 | |
| parent | bc6318d2be4d9eb62af9170958fd48ef45e4a74e (diff) | |
| parent | d3ac395dcc6bb68b6ec1d1a8601d3b3c8b7bd372 (diff) | |
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Auto merge of #25473 - doomrobo:patch-3, r=steveklabnik
Added `Deref` to the "Special Traits" section
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diff --git a/src/doc/reference.md b/src/doc/reference.md index 21e9be59ebb..0682c2003e3 100644 --- a/src/doc/reference.md +++ b/src/doc/reference.md @@ -3622,6 +3622,14 @@ The `Sized` trait indicates that the size of this type is known at compile-time. The `Drop` trait provides a destructor, to be run whenever a value of this type is to be destroyed. +## The `Deref` trait + +The `Deref<Target = U>` trait allows a type to implicitly implement all the methods +of the type `U`. When attempting to resolve a method call, the compiler will search +the top-level type for the implementation of the called method. If no such method is +found, `.deref()` is called and the compiler continues to search for the method +implementation in the returned type `U`. + # Memory model A Rust program's memory consists of a static set of *items* and a *heap*. |